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201787P.pdf 10/08/2021 Gracie Foster v. Walmart, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-1787
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central
[PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Wollman, Circuit
Judge]
Civil case - Arbitration. Plaintiffs alleged the gift cards they purchased
at Walmart were worthless because the value of the card was stolen by
third parties; Walmart filed a motion to compel arbitration based on a
notation on the back of the cards which directed the buyer to Walmart's
website; based on the notation on the card, a binding arbitration
agreement was not formed at the moment plaintiffs purchased the card; the
parties do not dispute that this is a "browsewrap" agreement case, but the
record is lacking on several material facts - whether the plaintiffs used
the website, whether the design of the website was sufficient to give a
reasonable browser notice of the arbitration, and whether the language on
the card was sufficient to put the buyer on notice - and the matter is
remanded to the district court for a trial on the question of whether the
parties agreed to arbitrate.